Marking-ticket.



N0. 644,54l. Patented Feb. 27, I900.

W. B. SMITH.

MARKING TICKET.

(Application filed Mar. 15, 1397. (No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VALTON DUANE SMITH, OF PROPHETSTOWN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MARKING-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,541, dated February 27, 1900.

Application filed March 15, 1897. aerial No. 627,597. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTON DUANE SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Prophetstown, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Marking-Ticket, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to marking tickets or tags for use on the edge of cloth goods, such as are commonly handled in dry-goods stores; and it has for its object to construct a new and useful ticket or tag of this character having simple and efficient means for concealing or protecting the point or points of the pin or pins used for fastening the ticket in place on the edge of the goods, to positively obviate the ticket or tag becoming displaced, and also preventing the points of the fastening-pins snagging or catching in the goods or pricking the fingers.

With these and other objects in view,which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the obverse side of an edge goods-marking ticket shown secured in its applied position by means of a fastening-pin separate from the ticket. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the reverse side of the ticket shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the point-protecting flap unfolded. Fig. 3 is a similar View to Fig. 2, showing the flap secured in its folded position. Fig. 4c is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of an edge goodsmarking ticket embodying the improvement contemplated by this invention. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the ticket, showing a modified construction involving the use of a single point-protecting flap for a plurality of fastening-pins and showing the fastening-pins embedded in one end of the ticket, so as to form a part of the ticket, ready for use. Fig. 7 is a perspective View of another modified construction in which the-ticket is provided with a plurality of point-protecting flaps, there being one flap for each fastening-pin. Fig. 8 is a plan View of the reverse side of a ticket, showing a modified construction of point-protecting flap. Fig. 9 is a detail in perspective of the form of ticket shown in Fig. 8.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a marking-ticket essentially comprisinga flexible body 1, preferably formed from a rectangular blank of paper or other similar material which is usually employed in the construction of marking tickets and tags for use on cloth goods. The flexible ticketbody 1, while generally made in a rectangular form, may of course be of any desired shape or form; but the said ticket-body is folded upon itself intermediate its ends at the point 2, so as to embrace or fit over the edge of a piece of cloth goods G, as illustrated in the drawings, this being the usual way of applying edge goods-marking tickets to the goods. Ordinarily it is the custom to secure the folded ticket-body on the edge of the goods by means of one or more two-pronged flexible fastening-pins 3,'which are passed through the end portions of the ticket-body and the goods and have their points folded back upon the ticket-body to retain the same in position, and the present invention contemplates no departure from this manner of arranging and securing edge goods-marking tickets in place.

In the simpler form of the ticket illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, of the drawings the flexible ticket-body 1 has extended integrally from one end of the pin-engaged portion thereof a point-protecting foldable flap 4, which flap is of a tapering form, so as to provide itself with a narrowed tongue portion 5, adapted to be inserted through a transversely-arranged lockingslot 6 cut transversely in the ticket-body near one end thereof, and when the tongue portion 5 of the folding flap 4: is passed through the slot -6 said portion of the flap lies in the space between one face of the goods and one side portion of the flexible ticket-body. The pin-engaged portion of the ticket-body 1, provided with the transverse locking-slot 6, is also pierced with pin-openings 7, through which openings are passed the flexible points of the ordinary fastening-pin 3, which fastening-pin in the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 5 of the drawings-is entirely separate from the pin-bearing portion of the ticket and is passed through the directly-opposite ends of the ticket-body and the goods between the separate portions of the ticket-body. \Vhen the fastening-pin is forced through the goods and the opposite ends of the ticket-body, the flexible points, which are caused to pass through the pinopenings 7, are bent down upon the ticketbody in opposite directions, so as to be entirely covered and concealed from view by the flap 4 when such flap is folded back over the body of the ticket and the tongue portion 5 thereof inserted through the locking-slot 6 in the manner described.

While in the form of the invention just described the fastening-pin is entirely separate from the ticket itself, yet it will of course be understood that the pin may be carried with the ticket as a part thereof, as illustrated in the construction shown in Fig. 6, in which figure of the drawings a pair of fastening-pins 3 is shown, which pins have their head portions embedded or otherwise secured permanently in the reinforced edge 9 of the pinbearing portion of the ticket-body, said reinforced edge being at the end of the ticketbody opposite the end from which the pointprotecting flap is extended. It will, however, be understood that it is quite immaterial, as far as the present invention is concerned, whether the fastening-pins are separate from or attached permanently to the ticket; but in either case the part of the body not having the flap 4 may be properly termed the pinbearing portion, since the other part of the body is engaged by the folded points of the pin or pins.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. (5 the ticket 1 is illustrated as being of an extra length and formed with two pairs of pin-openings 7 or with a plurality of pin-openings to receive the flexible points of the separate fastening-pins, all of which points are designed to be covered by the single flap 4, which is of a width corresponding to the entire width of the ticket-body itself. An extension of the idea suggested in the modification of Fig. 6 is shown in the modification illustrated in Fig. '7, in which modification the ticket-body is very long, so as to be adapted to serve not only as a marking-ticket per 80, but also as a binding for samples. In this construction of ticket the ticket-body is formed with a plurality of point-protecting flaps 4, there being one of such flaps for each fastening-pin and locking-slot 6, the ticket-body being pierced wit-h separate pairs of the pin-openings '7 and a series of the slots 6, disposed in alinement and spaced at intervals corresponding to the spacing of the separate flaps 4.

A modification of the manner of securing or locking the point-protecting flap in its folded position over the pin-points is shown in Figs. 8 and 9 of the drawings, in which the point-protecting flap 4 is illustrated as being formed with a T locking-tongue 10, the opposite extremities 11 of which tongue are adapted to be inserted through the oppositely-located locking-slots 12, disposed longitudinally of the ticket-body and positively preventing the accidental unfolding of the point-protecting flap when the extremities of the tongue are engaged therein.

Other modifications may suggest themselves to those skilled in the art, and it will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minordetails of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A marking-ticket, for the edge of goods, com prising a flexible foldable body having a pin-bearing portion and apinengaged portion, respectively, the latter portion of the body being provided with a locking slot, and with pin-receiving openings, and being extended at one end to form a folding point-protecting flap having a locking-tongue, and adapted to be folded onto the body after the points of a fastening-pin have been passed through said openings and bent down, the lockingtongue of the flap being adapted to engage in said locking-slot, substantially as specified.

2. A marking-ticket, for the edges of goods, comprising a flexible foldable body having a pin-engaging portion and a pin-engaged portion, respectively, the latter portion of the body being provided with pin-receiving openings and said pitrengage'd portion extended at one end, forming an integral point-protecting flap, said flap being foldable upon the pin-engaged portion and having detachable interlocking connection therewith, whereby the points of a fastening-pin may be inclosed between the locking-flap and the pin-engaged portion of the body after said pin-points shall have been passed through said openings and bent upon the pin-engaged portion, substantially as described.

3. A marking-ticket comprising a pin-bearing portion and a pin-engaged portion, the former having a connected pin; and the latter portion having a slot and tongue, the points of pin in the use of the ticket being passed through the pin-engaged portion, the bent-over ends of the pin being concealed by the tongue which engages in the said slot.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WALTON DUANE SMITH.

Witnesses F. L. ADAMS, C. W. FENN. 

